Below are some potential notable starts being made by drivers this weekend. Notable meaning they will be tied with a driver in number of starts made in that specific series, or the number of starts being made is a significant number that they are reaching in their specific race this weekend at Circuit of the Americas. Rankings reflect the all-time starts list for that series.
(The featured image is the driver I find having the most notable start this weekend)
*This will be updated after qualifying for each race if a driver does not make the race.
Truck Series Starts
Stewart Friesen: 143rd start ties Bill Lester, ranks 29th
Spencer Boyd: 92nd start ties Brett Moffitt, ranks 54th
Tanner Gray: 76th start ties Sheldon Creed, ranks 71st
Christian Eckes: 73rd start ties Austin Dillon, Ben Kennedy, Bobby Dotter, Miguel Paludo & Ryan Truex, ranks 77th
Josh Reaume: 68th start ties Ricky Carmichael, ranks 88th
Chase Purdy: 57th start ties Morgan Shepherd, ranks 113th
Hailie Deegan: 51st start ties Justin Haley, ranks 130th
Lawless Alan: 36th start ties J.J. Yeley & Regan Smith, ranks 176th
Tyler Hill: 32nd start ties Kenny Irwin Jr., ranks 196th
Dean Thompson: 29th start ties Austin Cindric, ranks 212th
Matt DiBenedetto: 28th start ties Chase Briscoe, Daniel Suarez & Kurt Busch, ranks 223rd
Matt Mills: 17th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 301st
Keith McGee: 10th start!
*Tyler Hill will not make his 32nd start due to a practice crash
Xfinity Series Starts
Brandon Jones: 243rd start ties Rick Mast, ranks 48th
Alex Labbe: 141st start ties Ricky Craven, ranks 109th
Jeb Burton & Riley Herbst: 116th start ties Ken Schrader, ranks 135th
Brennan Poole & Joe Graf Jr.: 100th start!
Brett Moffitt: 91st start ties Johnny Benson, ranks 177th
Gray Gaulding, John Hunter Nemechek & Ryan Ellis: 74th start ties Chris Buescher, ranks 210th
Josh Berry: 69th start ties Matt DiBenedetto, ranks 222nd
Austin Hill: 55th start ties Kyle Petty, ranks 253rd
Stefan Parsons: 52nd start ties Ty Gibbs, ranks 263rd
Sheldon Creed: 44th start ties Bill Elliott, ranks 289th
Chandler Smith: 10th start!
Derek Kraus, Chris Hacker & Mason Maggio: 1st start!
Cup Series Starts
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: 371st start ties Bobby Hamilton, ranks 74th
Austin Dillon: 343rd start ties Landon Cassill, ranks 83rd
Corey Lajoie: 207th start ties Alan Kulwicki, ranks 138th
William Byron: 187th start ties Tim Flock & Trevor Bayne, ranks 154th
Ross Chastain: 158th start ties Fred Lorenzen, ranks 177th
Austin Cindric: 50th start!
Noah Gragson: 25th start!
Chandler Smith: 1st start!
